As I read the posts about population loss, I have to ask a cynical question: what the fuck is the purpose of this thread?

To rationalize Detroit's population loss as an historical event is nonsense. Detroit's population loss is the result of two things: racism and removal of revenue. Racism because Whites didn't want to live with a increasing Black population and when White flight took to the suburbs, they move their businesses to their communities leaving rotting shells behind thus removing the revenue, the money. Not to disappoint, Blacks in turn decided to follow their White brothers and sisters to the very suburbs that Whites fled to more than 50 years ago. Detroit's fate is a result of politics and economics, nothing more, nothing less.